 As long as Jamal Murray does not eat the W. What is Jamal? Oh! Welcome everybody to another episode of NBA Signature Moves. International Edition. We're going to be covering international players and as you guys know, there are a lot of foreign-born legends such as Vladi Divak, Hakeem Elajewan, Drog Novitski, Yao Meng, Steve Nash, even Steve Nash is from Canada. Leandro Barbosa. Oh man, so good. Oh, Manu Jenobley, Andrei Barniani. Oh! Now you're going to say Andre Karolinko. Oh! We could go on and on, but it is the 2018 to 2019 season and at this point almost 30% of NBA players are born outside of the U.S. So guys, there's a lot of up-and-coming stars we've got to cover. There are a ton of dope international players out right now like Luca Donchich, Jamal Murray, Yolkic, Greek Freak, Ben Simmons. Guys, back in the day international players were usually considered spot-up shooters or you know, role-players. But now, in today's time, they're becoming the stars. All right, so we're here with Nelson Chan from Hooping Life. We got Kevla, we got David and Andrew from the Fung Bros. Guys, this is the international edition of NBA Signature Moves. Let's go! All right guys, first off, let's start with Rudy Gobert. A.K.A. The Stifle Tower. A.K.A. The Gobert Report. Rudy Gobert is from France. Ho-ho! Let's go. Hey, tell me, does he kind of look like he could be related to Tony Parker? Him, Tony Parker, and Dante Exum could all be cousins. Yeah. He's always up for a potential all defensive player of the year. I think when you look at Rudy Gobert, really lanky, really tall, he can move his feet. That's really good timing. I love watching Rudy block somebody because he uses his whole body. It's just... Ah! The drive! Rudy hangs tough. Oh, he looks like he's like maybe playing volleyball. Fly to the rim. That's a volleyball squad. He's trying to spike it or he throws his whole body like flying in. He's an outside hitter. I'm like, hitter, man? When you talk about Rudy Gobert's stats, you're not talking about blocks per game. You're talking about swaths per game. And also, it's not even the blocks. The way he alters the offensive player's shot, whether he blocks it or not, he makes it difficult for the offensive player to score. Even though he may not get the stat for getting a block shot, a tip, he makes it more difficult. Like a 6-3 guard going in. He can't dunk on him. He can't go up and under. It's hard for him. He's going to throw up a wild shot, make a miss, and that's not a stat that's recorded, right? Hey, this year though, he's averaging like 17. He stepped his offensive game up. All right, guys, let's go show him what Rudy Gobert looks like when he blocks somebody. All right, one of the keys is that somehow, for a moment, Rudy Gobert ends up looking like the rave girl meme. You know, when the rave girl's raving. Let's show him what happened to Julius Randall. By the way, we always use the bag on Julius a lot in NBA signature moves. He's doing really good this year. Okay, so for this play, Rudy Gobert, aka Nelson came help side, which means he didn't have the one-on-one matchup with Julius Randall, but he got by his man. But he didn't get by Gobert. Oh, man. All right, this is another great help side block by Rudy Gobert on Hassan Whiteside. Not a short guy this time. All right, coming up next, we got the young star, Luca Doncis from Slovenia. He's big, got handled, got vision, and he can locally shoot a little bit. These moves that he's pulling at his speed are very, very impressive. Like, it almost is crazy how much he's getting past people. He's not fast, but he's quick. He's like, obviously not super athletic. He's not super fast. He don't got that crazy speed, but you know, he's quick on his feet. He's actually not that great of a ball handler in terms of being a point guard, but he actually has really good handles to be a score. Like he got moves. He got behind the back, between the leg, crossover to score or set someone for a dimer, right? He's done a lot of moves this season so far, but this one really exemplifies this game. All right, so on this move, Luca Dantric, he does a between the leg to the left, dribble between the leg to the right, in and out. One dribble, feels the contact behind the back. One dribble and off balance, low banker. Dodge it. Oh yeah, we like that. All balance. Dodge it. Okay. Oh yeah, we like that. All balance. Would you say of any NBA 2B star that he's got one of like the slowest releases? Yeah. He's doing pretty well even with the slow release, but you think it's going to hinder him down the road? I don't think so. The amount of space he creates off of his, you know, his moves or his combo move gives him enough time to get the shot off. So yeah, he's good. A lot of players or defenders are worried about his drive and even when he makes all his moves, when he gets him off balance, so when he does that step back or whatever moves he's doing, yeah, just like Nusset said, he has a lot of time to set the shot and make this step back. It's nice. It's nice. Yo, he shoots almost like a like a seven foot guy kind of. Yeah. He doesn't jump high off the ground. It's a big arc. His legs are definitely slanted and he jumps forward and he shoots kind of like above his head like this. Luca. That's good. All right. Now we got Nikola Jokic, the Joker, the Nuggets are killing it this year. He is also killing it. Yo, he should have been an All-Star last year. There's no way he's not an All-Star this year. You know what it is for a big man? He doesn't really dunk on people that often, but he's schools. Oh, yes, players, schools, people like none other is better than calling Anthony Towns. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Of course, man. Way more skillful. Plus, I think he's a better leader too than Kat. He doesn't look as cool, even though, he makes really cool plays. It's just not as it's bashing. It kind of doesn't look super. It does kind of look like the skilled big man at the gym. Like, he's not that tall. You know what I mean? He kind of looks like chubby. He looks out of shape. Some of these passes he's throwing, to me, the greatest thing about Jokic is his expression. Like, he just kind of goes like this. You've never seen good pass before? Like, it was expected. Yeah, big deal. So for this pass, he was covered by like four Spurs players and somehow he was able to throw a no look behind the back pass for an assist. There's a reset on the 28. Oh, behind the back. Oh my gosh. Come on. There's a reset on the 28. Oh, behind the back. Would you guys agree that the European big men typically are better passers and shooters than the American big men? Oh, for sure. They're way more fundamental. It's also because they don't dunk as much. Yeah. When you say they don't dunk as much, it's because they're now athletic. What do you think it is like about the way the international guys are coached or they're taught growing up or like, is it because they can't just catch alley-oops and stuff like that? They have their force to develop other skills. Because they're not that athletic, they have to rely more on their skill. Basically, European players growing up. They're working a lot more on a fundamental as playing team ball while in the States, you know, people are focused on AAU. It's a highlight and a showcase. If in America they could produce more players with the skill of yokich, then maybe they should think about changing things here. You do have a point, but the only problem is it's boring. People want to work on shooting deep threes and dunking the ball, right? They want to work on the fundamentals. No one really wants to do that. That's why they just want to be cool. That's why European players always come out a lot more fundamentally sound. Also, you got to understand that these guys are also so skilled because they actually start playing professional basketball at a much younger age. They play at like two. Tony Parker, for example, started playing pro when he was like 14. Like he wasn't even going to school anymore. No, that's it. I'm not saying you should do that, but it is a different system out there. On this next pass, yokich calls for it in the high post and he does a two-hand no-look over-the-head pass. I remember the first international player to ever do this pass was our Venus Sabonis. Blasted young in front of us looking and throw that over-the-head pass and blasted young in front of us and looking and throw that over the head. Coming in from Canada, we have a little guy in the name of Jamal Murray. He's been starting to kill within the last few seasons and lately he's been cooking. Poutine. Man, and not only has he been cooking, he's been letting people know that he's been cooking by celebrating, celebrating so much where I've really pissed off Kyrie Irving. Man, that was kind of crazy, but in all, in all defense to Jamal Murray, Kyrie shouldn't have let him drop 48 points. He dropped 48 on your head, boy. Hey man, you can't get mad at somebody for going for 50 if they only got 48. That's my opinion. No, don't let him get 48 if you don't want to let him get 50. All right guys, so we know Jamal Murray is known for his celebration. He does that a lot. We call it at the Blue Arrow. What'd you guys think about him when he did the Jameson Winston? He almost was like eating the dub afterwards. What do you mean? W. That's he won. That's he won. That's a W. Not the signature celebration, but the signature move that he just pulled three times on the Celtics. And I feel like if you do a move three times in one game, it's your signature move. Is this crazy up and under his up and under. I don't even know, man, because to me it doesn't really look like quite like Kobe or DeRozan's up and under. Or even Rondo, you know back there on Rondo used to do it. It looks a little bit more like crude, but he's just got people jumping. But here's what happened. He got Jaylin Brown jumping, but then he pulled the move twice on Al Horford. Al Horford didn't necessarily leave the ground, but you could tell his hands went up and then he just went right up under them. All right, Jamal Murray on Jaylin Brown. As long as Jamal Murray does not heat the W. What is Jamal doing? On this plate, Jamal Murray drives down the middle of the key, pump fakes, steps through and does a left-hand layup. So let's see it. All right, guys, we got to talk about Joe Ingalls. Now a lot of people are going to be like, Oh, Joe Ingalls, not that flash of a player, only averaging 13 points a game. But let me tell you this when you watch him play, are you not impressed? He is a killer. He's a Paul George killer. Yo man, he was getting in Paul George's head, man. He ruined his career, bro. He ruined his career. Wait, you let Joe Ingalls destroy you like that? You mean to tell me it physically? He looks like he's about 41 years old. He's only 31 and his shot, we got to talk about his shot because he's good at a lot of stuff. But we'll just focus on his form because his form as a lefty is pretty interesting. Hey, you know, they say Elbow's in, Joe Ingalls in, yeah, they really thinks they're made again and again with the air bales out. Hey, it's like the follow-through, kiss my hand. Kiss my hand. You know, we can't talk about international players without the man with the alphabet in his name, Giannis Anticompo. Greek, Greek. This guy is not just doing euro steps, he's doing gyro steps just across the court. He is the most unstoppable player in transition. Remember in the summer he was making all his goofy videos? I'm not just a freak on the court, also freak in the sheets. He could be a freak on the court and on the sheets. I don't play four night at night. I four play at night. I'm only four play at night. Hey, one thing I said about Giannis this season, one-on-one, he's looking unstoppable. He's making everyone look like little kids. Giannis on the run is maybe the scariest thing in the NBA. It is crazy how he can take a one-two step from an NBA three-point line and still dunk it with ease. So this was in the playoffs last year when they're playing the Celtics. This play is an ankle-breaking euro step. Basically, he euros so fast and so hard that the defender just falls back. I've never seen someone fall down from a euro step. Well, because the whole point of a euro is to avoid contact. Yeah. What makes Giannis's unscrupulous side steps, euro steps so effective is you don't know if he's going to do a euro step or he's going to go take a long stride and step into the basket. Well, it's either like a layup if he goes left and you just go and get dunked on if he goes right. If Giannis learns how to shoot, league shut down. This is not it. If Giannis learns how to shoot, he will be like the equivalent of Kevin Durant and LeBron James together. Let's show you. Giannis, look at these moves. Look at that euro step. Giannis, look at these moves. Look at that euro step. All right, guys. Last but not least, we're talking about Ronnie Chang's favorite player. Ah, we're talking about another Aussie, Ben Simmons, everybody. Yo, lefties with funny looking shots or in Ben Simmons case, no shot. But it's weird because you do see him shoot in warmups. You do see him shoot in practice and he kind of makes them. What is it about it and the game situation that prevents him from taking a shot? I think he realized he's so big, so quick, so strong. Why not just take it to the rack and finish around the rim? Why do I need to shoot? That's probably what he's thinking. I just don't think he's confident enough in, you know, his shooting. Hey, I got to say this. I'm a Markel fan. Markel's still really not a good shooter, but he's willing to take like 6-3s again. That's why he's going to be good because, you know, he has the confidence. He said he's not scared to go in for 6. He's not scared. He's not scared. I guess Ben Simmons probably figures, yo, I'm so much better at passing. Let me just figure out a way to pass to a teammate. We got to go through some Ben Simmons signature moves, man. We got to show some of his magic Johnson-like passing. All right, so this first one, Embiid is trailing behind, and Ben Simmons, in the most smooth way, drops it underneath his legs when he's right in front of Joelle, and Joelle goes up for the slam. This was one of the smoothest versions of this move I've ever seen in the NBA, let alone by someone who's like 6-10. Here comes Simmons between the legs. Oh! Here comes Simmons between the legs. He also got a pretty interesting array of like skyhooks, right? He does, he does. Ben Simmons can make some very awkward hook shots, but cannot hit an open jumper. He has taken zero three-pointers this season. We also got Andrew Wiggly-Wiggins. And it's funny because I would say actually Andrew Wiggly-Wiggins, not that Wiggly-Wiggly. Andrew Wiggins is so stiff to me, he kind of feels like a Harrison Barnes. He'll be really choppy, right? Jab step. His upper body is very upright. His legs might be getting low, but his upper body is always very upright. Very stiff. I mean, he pretty much only got that drop step spin move into either a finger roll or like pull-up. That's like the only move that he has, right? Yeah. I would say Andrew-Stiffins. Andrew-Stiffins. Would you say that a lot of people are disappointed with Andrew Wiggly-Wiggins' development as a player? I know somebody who's very disappointed is Jimmy Butler. I don't think there's too many of them that'll tell you that I'm a bad teammate. Timberwolves' beef is not just between Jimmy Butler and Carl Anthony Towns. It is also between Jimmy Butler, Andrew Wiggins. Very different. Still very talented, still young, but something's gonna have to shift in his mentality. He might need to get new trainers or something. The work ethic is not there. All right, guys, Joe L&B. I'm Andre Drummond's daddy. He owns a real estate in his head. I feel like I own a lot of real estate in his head. Joe L&B and Ben Simmons, right? There was so much hype about the Sixers this year. They're doing okay, but they're not really killing it. Yeah, they're not. What's going on? Is Joe L actually doing his job? No, Joe L actually makes a lot of boneheaded mistakes sometimes. He turns the ball over a lot. Like, he's a really bad passer. Like, he'll see some guy trying to come up for the ball, but then he'll backdoor, but he'll throw the ball still. Very, very fluid offensively. I think if you look at Joe L&B's highlights, he almost looks like the greatest player in NBA history. And then you don't know that there's a lot of, like, kind of recklessness that comes along with that. But incredibly fluid. What is it about the international players? They're making up a third of the NBA. It's possible in a few more years, they might make up 35, 40% of the NBA. What is it? I think basketball is just going overall. It's a lot more popular. And players are a lot more willing to make the sacrifice and make the global move to try to make it to the NBA. While a lot of players in the leagues, the professional leagues, they're content being overseas, right? So they don't try to work on our game and improve themselves so they can stay in the NBA or make the NBA. Outside of America, if you round up all the players, there's way, way, way more professional basketball players than just in the NBA. The NBA only has 300 players. Out there in the world, I don't know, thousands, right? So you're taking some of the best ones. And maybe the best ones don't want to come over, but some of the best ones, then you're only picking those to be in the NBA. So that's why it seems like they're so good because they really are that good. It just shows you that it's not an American dream anymore. People from all over the world, you know, who has a goal in making it big in basketball is trying to get into the NBA. Whether it's Europe, Asia, you know, Africa, Latin America, everyone's obviously, you want to play with the best of the best and that's the NBA. Today's game is a lot more fast-paced. You can rely on your outside shooting which a lot of European players are really good at, but also one thing in the league, people around the basket are way craftier. A lot more side steps, zero steps, step backs, all these different type of footwork and technical moves. These European players are really good at that. So they kind of blend in with the game a lot more. And then some of these players are becoming a little more athletic. So they can actually hang around in the league a lot more. One thing I want to say is the first player that really played like Steph was Serunis Jasekiewicz, but only in the Lithuanian league. Right, he was basically doing what Steph was doing in the NBA, but only in Lithuanian league. So it goes to show you there was players pretty much dominating from, you know, purely over there, but they just couldn't do it amongst the big trees of the NBA. All right, you guys, in the comment section below, make sure you let us know who is your favorite new international player in the NBA and what is their signature move. Also, let us know what other types of basketball videos you'd like us to make. Leave it in the comments right down there below. Shout out to Nelson from Hooping Life. Shout out to Kev Law. That's David and Andrew from the Fung Bros. Guys, that was the international edition of NBA signature moves. Man, the NBA is exciting. All right, stay tuned for more basketball videos because the NBA season is underway. All right, everybody, thanks for watching that video. And until next time, we out. Peace!